Mentoring Role (personal fit)
Dr. M: Um, I have tried to work with the mentoring program as much as I can
because personally and professionally that helps me think through applications.
And I think that it forces me, gently, forces me as a...as a faculty member to
maybe, well definitely, not maybe, try some things that I wouldn’t otherwise. That
would be frustrating to me being new to technology…The department has been
enhanced by the mentoring program over these years it’s pretty hard to
describe…its been amazing.
Dialogue of Collaboration (collob)
S: So we are going to insert one of the disks…
Dr. M: Let’s do the second grade one first.
S: OK
Dr. M: And that screen will always be the same
S: Right. So you are always going to have to save it first…and scroll through to
see if we have 24…
S: So what we should have done is when we had taken ‘em…looked through all
the pictures on the digital camera to make sure we had what we wanted
Dr. M: So, if I wanted to delete some, I could and then add another one and
then…
Dialogue of Pedagogical Philosophy (vision)
Dr. M: The application in the classes that I teach, Sara, varies, and I think that I
have, I personally have to be very careful that the technology doesn’t consume
what happens. I don’t want students to think this is a tech course. I want them
to feel comfortable that technology is the tool for them to learn and to see
examples, and if that happens enough successfully, than I know they will be more
inclined to use it themselves, it being the technology, whatever they are using.
Sara: I was going to say one thing that really impressed me this semester is
your focus on the student and using technology as a tool rather than as a main
focus, and I do think that is a really, um, advanced philosophy, and I do think that
you are above many, um, that are using technology because you do have that
view ‘cuz I think a lot of educators, especially in higher education are still seeing it
as I have to use it, and they don’t know why, they don’t know how…
Success! (hier)
S: Here we go…watch it…
J: That’s cool
H.H.: Ah…it’s working now
J: That is neat
H.H.: That is really neat
J: Then, like I could click on that calendar, and the month of December would
come up?
S: Not yet. We’re getting there.
J: I know, I know, but that’s your idea, right? Or teacher’s desk…
S: You’ll click on it and maybe like, what is this, like a description of what it is,
how can I use it…